#Germany Year Zero

[byneddiedingo]

Edmund Moeschke in Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948) Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Lizzani, Max Kolpé. Cinematography: Robert Juillard. Film editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Roberto Rossellini's harsh, tragic vision of Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II is suffused with an odd mixture of sentimentality and Schadenfreude. Any film that centers on the experiences of a 12-year-old boy in the ruins of Berlin is bound to be touched with sentiment, of course, but Rossellini's Edmund Köhler (Edmund Moeschke) becomes less a real human child than the embodiment of ideas about the war, its causes, and its legacy. At the film's beginning, Edmund is seen with a kind of documentary clarity as he's fired from a job as a gravedigger because he's too young, then on his way home encounters a crowd of people hacking meat from the carcass of a horse that has apparently fallen dead in the street. Shooed away from there, he manages to scavenge a few lumps of coal that fall from a passing truck. It's when he reaches home that he becomes a figure in a fable: His family, billeted by the authorities on the reluctant owner of an apartment house, consists of an invalid father (Ernst Pittschau), a somewhat petulant older sister (Ingetraud Hinze), and a brother (Franz-Otto Krüger) whose refusal to register with the authorities -- he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht to the bitter end and remains convinced that the Nazis were right -- deprives them of a stipend they need to survive. His sister cadges cigarettes -- a virtual currency in the postwar barter system -- from men in nightclubs but is too proud to prostitute herself, so Edmund is the primary support of the household. This eventually puts him in the literal and figurative clutches of an unfortunately stereotypical homosexual, a former teacher (Erich Gühne) of his whose pederastic tendencies are manifest in his constant fondling of the boy. The nightmarish story of what happens to Edmund is well told, but Rossellini's determination to make it a kind of Götterdämmerung of the German people, deservedly punished for their crime of bringing Hitler to power, undermines what gives the film its real strength: its documentary vision of a city and a country in ruins.

#Germany Year Zero #Roberto Rossellini #Edmund Moeschke

[realhankmccoy]

zizek was trashing this one and saying it doesn't work anymore

i think he was wrong tho i'm bumping it up from a 6 to a 7

i think at the time i just thought 'what's an Italian director doing in fucking Germany' but those shots of the wreckage sure hold up in my mind

also dear Babycuck DO NOT pass this on to Babynazi they'll just get even stupider off it if they have the patience to sit through it at all which i strongly doubt, it'll just be even more crybaby shit about the Germans being the real victims

which i guess means Zizek is right it doesn't work any more because you show this to the people who need to see a movie and they'll just latch on with their bullshit

so, fine he's correct in the case of Europe

but the whole world isn't europe i'm not an EU citizen

there's a universal message here about what a fucking mess war is to clean up and what the world went through

which 'EUROPE PER SE' in the case of Russia being BLAH BLAH BLAH

#roberto rossellini #germany year zero #babynazi #Youtube #zizke #zizek

[letterboxd-loggd]

Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) (1948) Roberto Rossellini

February 12th 2023

#germany year zero #germania anno zero #1948 #roberto rossellini #edmund moeschke #ingetraud hinze #franz-otto kruger #ernst pittschau #erich guhne #hans sangen #christl merker

[ccthewriter]

CC's New Watch Ranking 2022: #3 - Germany Year Zero

1948, dir. Roberto Rossellini

Every year on Letterboxd, I make a list of the 100 best films I’ve seen for the first time. It’s a fun way to compare movies separated in time, genre, and country of origin, and helps me keep track of what I’m watching! This is a series of posts about my Top 10.

I spent a lot of time thinking about Rossellini last year. Especially his War Trilogy. (Shameless plug for my youtube page, I did a video on Paisan and Rome, Open City as an intro for a series of essays on Fellini. Check it out!)

During my lowest moments I really fear what the world is going to become over the course of my lifetime. Rising fascism, intolerance, climate change, wealth inequality… these things keep me up at night! I studied history in college. Whenever something bothers me, I look to the past for answers. There’s reassurance in knowing that everything I worry about has happened in some form somewhere. Since time immemorial, people in the past have tried to leave warnings for the future, guidance for avoiding their mistakes. You can’t always translate that advice 1:1,  but you can take pieces of that knowledge when you can. 

As I grapple with my country’s lazy strut towards fascism, I look to the cinema of post-war Italy. These filmmakers lived through the rise and fall of a similar ideology. They were all changed by the realities of war, and their art reflects it. Rossellini began his career as a propagandist, a child of wealth and privilege that got swept up in normalized authoritarianism before shifting paths during the war and becoming a staunch anti-fascist. It’s no surprise that the crown jewel of his post-war films, Germany Year Zero, follows a city of collaborators living in the rubble of their defeat. Rossellini understood better than anyone the ruin and monstrous emptiness that fascism and war leaves behind.

Germany Year Zero was shot in the remnants of Berlin after the end of World War 2. Rossellini shot it in the neorealist style he had developed: minimal sets, scripts, or production fussing. Casting actors he found on the spot, often non-professionals. Frequently shooting what we would now call “guerilla style.” Part of the terrible wonder of this film is that these choices make it so real. It gives the film a documentarian quality because it uses so, so many real elements that Rossellini discovered. Perhaps the most real element is the omnipresent despair that hands over every character.

The film follows a family living under the Allied occupation. They were full collaborators. Not passionate ideologues, perhaps, but in that true ‘banality of evil’ way that is presently leading so many conservatives to ruin. Everyone else is doing it, and it’s easier to keep your head down and believe the bloody dreams the government is selling. But now they live in the literal ruins of their beliefs. Their apartment is falling apart around them, and the interim authority has assigned other families to live with them, because the other buildings have been bombed through. They share no camaraderie - their experience of the war has made them distrustful and greedy. The eldest son of the family is in hiding, too. He was a Nazi soldier who fought to the bitter end, and hides from the authority for fear of being put on trial like the rest of his brigade. We see all this through the eyes of the youngest son, Edmund, whose entire life has basically been the Nazi regime. 

Edmund is the perfect lens to view this destroyed world through. He is a literal child, and his view on events is immensely simple. His family is hungry, so he wants to help feed them. He wants to play with other children, so he goes to where they’re gathering. He is told he has to obey, so obey he does. But his mind has been twisted by the cruelty of the regime. He’s a product of his parent’s upbringing. When circumstances force the family to make drastic decisions, Edmund steps up as the ‘man of the house’ who has to make tough choices. 

So, naturally, he kills his sick father so the family will have more to eat. 

This is what you want, fascists! You want to train your boys to be killers, right? You want them to be strong, to do what is necessary for the Fatherland no matter what, right???? This film is a depiction of those ideas coming home to roost. The people left alive after the war have to reckon with themselves, with the horrible systems they’ve been propping up. Berlin is shown as a city of walking phantoms and lurking ghouls. The people are left with nothing. 

In the end, wracked with guilt and still subsumed in the same misery he was in before, Edmund leaps off a building and dies. He kills himself because he reflects the despair and confusion that his entire world faces. He can’t see a way out, because literally all he has known is the message that there is nothing after fascism. He is too young to die - but this is what this ideology does to people. It makes them believe there is nothing but itself, that a life of forgiveness and penitence is impossible. 

The feeling of this film is what’s going to permeate Russia in a few years. It’s what’s going to be left in the right-wing circles of America. It’s already being seen. Broken, sad, stupid people living in the consequences of the misery they perpetuated on the world. It serves no one, it builds nothing, it only leaves us with rubble on which we can try to build. This film is a stark warning to those who would try to embrace this evil system. You will not receive an empire that lasts a thousand years - your civilization will be reset to zero, and you will be left with nothing as your children suffer and rebuild with the heaping trash you have left them.

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Thank you for reading! If you made it this far why don’t you give me a follow on Letterboxd, where I post reviews and keep obsessive track of all the movies I watch. Feel free to drop a line if you checked this movie out and want to share your thoughts!

#germany year zero #roberto rossellini #movies #film #letterboxd #movie list #film list #cc oc

[shihlun]

...A Merry Godardian Christmas

Jean-Luc Godard

- Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

1991

#jean luc godard #Germany Year 90 Nine Zero #Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro #Allemagne année 90 neuf zero #christmas #merry christmas

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (Jean-Luc Godard, 1991)

#Allemagne 90 neuf zéro #Jean-Luc Godard #Godard #quote #time #1991 #Jean luc godard #Allemagne 90 neuf zero #Germany Year 90 Nine Zero #music #metaphor #story

[mutschekiepchn]

Iceland! I knew I liked you!

#finally some points for us #this is the year Germany does not deserve zero points #esc #esc 2023

[blublibleee]

The jury vote is a fucking trainwreck

#eurovison #esc 2023 #israel getting so many points is disgusting #also why no love to germany #uk should have a zero this year again not them #can't wait for the televotes to fuck it up

[frnndlcs]

Germania anno zero, Roberto Rossellini, 1948

#germany year zero #germania anno zero #roberto rossellini

[itcanbefilmed]

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard, 1991)

#jean-luc godard #jean luc godard #germany year 90 nine zero #lemmy caution

[thanatos-zagreus-shagreus]

What are they doing to Serbia? They deserve better

#also poor germany #it wasn't a good song #but zero points again is a bit harsh #though they deserve it more than last year

[girlactionfigure]

Me: I don’t deny your identity. I acknowledge Palestinians exist today.

Them: Jesus was a Palestinian, not a Jew!

Me: Well, no - he was a Jewish rabbi. He had a bris, kept Shabbat, kept kosher, & his “Last Supper” was a Passover Seder. Besides, nobody would be called “Palestinian” for ~1,900 years after #Jesus died.

Them: Jews are #Khazars with no history in Palestine!

Me: Well, no - millions of DNA samples have now scientifically proven that Ashkenazi Jews (like their Sephardi & Mizrahi brothers & sisters) originate from the Levant (Israel).

Ashkenazi Jews migrated to the Rhineland (western #Germany) between 800-900 CE. 

#Yiddish - the language spoken by #Ashkenazi Jews for a millennia - is a mixture of Jews’ original Hebrew & adopted #German.

Meanwhile, there is no evidence of any Khazar influence on Ashkenazi customs, language, or culture.

The #Khazar tale (claiming some or many Turkic Khazars converted to #Judaism), while interesting, is not supported by any archeological evidence, and can be considered nothing more than a story.

Besides, it’s unassailable that the Ashkenazim were living ~1,500 miles from the Khazars, which may as well have been on the moon in the Middle Ages.

Them: Palestinians are Canaanites, the original inhabitants of the Land!

Me: Well, no - there’s zero evidence the Palestinians are Canaanites. This theory followed other similarly false claims over the past several decades that the Palestinians descend from the Philistines (an ancient Aegean Greek “sea people”) and even the Jebusites - a people for whom there is no evidence outside of the Bible of their having ever existed (if they did, they have been gone for at least 3,000 years).

One thing is clear, all of these recent tall tales about Palestinians’ ancient roots in “Palestine” were created in an attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel & not as some academic attempt to find Palestinian roots.

The #Canaanites (who spoke a language similar to #Hebrew, not #Arabic) have been extinct for more than 3,000 years; and there are no #Canaanite influences in any modern Palestinian language, culture, cuisine, customs, or religion.

Furthermore, DNA studies now prove Canaanites are closest in descension to modern-day Armenians & Western Iranians - but, culturally, there has not been a “Canaanite” people in ~3,000 years.

Meanwhile, there is a practically infinite amount of archeological, biblical & non-biblical text, and architectural evidence proving beyond any doubt that Jews lived in the Land of Israel continuously for more than 3,200 years.

Arabs only started arriving in Eretz Israel in significant numbers during the Arab Imperial conquest out of the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula in the mid 7th century CE when the Land was still majority-occupied by ~350,000 Jews.

Arab conquerers #colonized the Land of Israel & subjugated the Jewish majority.

That’s right, the Arabs were the #colonizers - this is historical fact no matter how much that might make your head hurt.

Them: The Jews are foreigners who stole Palestinian land!

Me: Ok, now you’ve officially ticked me off by repeatedly denying MY identity - one that was OBVIOUS to everyone before the last ~55 years when KGB-inspired propaganda went into mass effect in an effort to delegitimize Israel.

Can’t say the same about your identity … even though I keep trying to offer to respect it!

The Arabs only ruled Eretz Israel after conquering it in the 7th century & until they were kicked out by the Seljuks ~400 years later. Never during that time, did they even attempt to establish an Arab or #Muslim state or capital anywhere in Eretz Israel (Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran, and while the city is holy to Sunni Muslims, it is not holy to Shia Muslims).

And during the time of Arab rule, there was obviously no state or country called “Palestine.”

Then, during the 400 years before the start of the British Mandate around 1920, the Land was a distant & severely neglected province of the Ottoman #Turkish Empire.

In fact, in the late 19th century, as Jews began moving back to their homeland in larger numbers, there were only ~200,000 people living there (mostly a sparse, nomadic population), and Jews were the majority in #Jerusalem.

Post-WWI, the League of Nations (the precursor to the UN) legally granted Britain a "sacred trust" called the Mandate for Palestine (a name given to the land by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 CE).

The Mandate for Palestine was the least controversial of the 15 post-WWI mandates because everyone KNEW Jews were from “Palestine.”

So the Mandate for Palestine, which included the legal requirement for Britain to aid in the establishment of a Jewish National Home, passed unanimously by the League of Nations.

Among other things, the unanimously passed & legally-binding Mandate recognized “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”

Besides, before the Jews started returning to the Land in large numbers in the late 19th century, it had become almost entirely war-torn ruins, arid desert & malarial swamps.

But the returning Jews were determined to rebuild their homeland; and the evidence is undeniable that Jewish labor & the Western technology they brought along helped to make the desert bloom again.

The result of a new booming economy in the midst of mostly rural, undeveloped land is no surprise; and hundreds of thousands of Arabs from neighboring lands immigrated to Mandate Palestine in the early to mid 20th century.

In fact, once Arabs began to rebel against the Jews (with pogroms & full-blown barbaric massacres on a particularly wide scale in 1920, 1921, 1929, and in 1936-1939), they made extremely clear to the British that they resented the name “Palestine,” which they claimed (incorrectly) was a modern Zionist invention.

For example, at the British Peel Commission in 1937 (looking into Arab riots from the year before), local Arab leader Audi Bey Abdul-Hadi testified that “[t]here is no such country [as Palestine]! Palestine is a term the Zionists invented!”

Again, during the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that was set-up to make recommendations for the territory, Arab-American historian Philip Hitti testified, “There is no such thing as Palestine in [Arab] history, absolutely not.”

The Arab position was not particularly surprising, as "Palestine” is not an Arab word (Arabic does not even have a letter “P” or a sound for “P,” which is why you often hear Arabs today pronounce it with a “B” as “Balastine”).

The Arabs in the Land at that time mostly identified with their local clan & otherwise considered themselves “Arabs” of “Southern Syria.”

In fact, just about anyone who was called a “Palestinian” pre-1948 was a #Jew.

This is why nobody made any attempt to create a “Palestinian state” during the 19 years between 1948 and 1967 in which #Egypt occupied #Gaza & #Jordan occupied the “#WestBank.”

The hard truth - even though I’m still acknowledging a #Palestinian people exists today - is that an Arab “Palestinian” identity was created for the first time in any signifiant way at the height of the Cold War in the mid-1960s & at the behest of the #Soviet#KGB, which wanted to expand its influence in the region, undermine the only democracy in the Middle East, and which had been repeatedly embarrassed by Israeli victories over invading Soviet-backed & Soviet-armed Arab states.

So the KGB wrote the ridiculous “Palestine Liberation Organization” (PLO) charter & molded Yasser Arafat at what was known as “KGB U” in #Moscow to use #terror & #propaganda to destabilize Israel.

Over the decades since then, many Arabs in the Land have come to self-identify as “Palestinians.”

Even among Palestinians today, however, many still identify with their clan over a separate “Palestinian” nationality (e.g., the clans do not intermarry & many are constantly engaged in some degree of violent conflict).

And the 2 million+ Arabs citizens of the State of Israel (who have equal protection under the law & more rights & privileges than they would have in any Arab and/or Muslim country on Earth) almost exclusively identify as either #Israeli-#Arabs or as simply #Israelis - not as #Palestinians.

Them: #Jews … I mean #Zionists … are bad, ok? Just ask the UN.

Me: Right. Just ask the #UN 

Captain Allen

@CptAllenHistory

#🙄 #Education #Israel #Palestine

[rhaenella]

CL16 | Is It Over Now? | pt.6

pairing: charles leclerc x singer!reader

genre: social media au

summary: you and charles have been everyone's fave couple on the grid, but when you somewhat unexpectedly break up, you turn to songwriting to cope with the pain

face claim: léon

a/n: enjoy the penultimate part! 🥰

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part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 7

masterlist

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Liked by carlossainz55, yourbestfriend and 1,184,902 others

y/n: When you go to the loo for 5 mins and you come back to find this in your camera roll… (there are like 30 more of these btw)

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landonorris: Perks of flying with Norris Airways

y/n: It was a little cramped tbh

maxverstappen1: Verstappen Airlines is open for bookings

y/n: Hm… I might hold you to that

landonorris: Heyyy 😕

danielricciardo: We should’ve been models

y/n: Please 😂 What a wasted opportunity

user36: omg lando and daniel 😭😭😭

user37: they’re so annoyingly cute i can’t

user38: 😍😍😍

user39: i will never tire of seeing y/n hangout with the other drivers 🥹

yourbestfriend: Monaco get ready, y/n is back to party

Liked by y/n

11 August

y/n’s story

Seen by maxverstappen1, lilymhe and 4,228,671 others

13 August

Liked by alex_albon, kellypiquet and 692,317 others

maxverstappen1: Monaco Padel Champions 2023 🏆

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kellypiquet: ♥️

carlossainz55: 👏👏

landonorris: This is definitely not us making fun of the loser team

maxverstappen1: 😂

alex_albon: Whose idea was it to team up Daniel with y/n?? That’s the easiest win ever

landonorris:✌️

danielricciardo: Shut up. We’re the best team in the world 👯

y/n: Let them be darling, they don’t understand our genius

maxverstappen1: You call winning zero sets “genius”?

y/n: Shut up

13 August

landonorris’ story

Seen by alex_albon, charles_leclerc and 3,973,621 others

14 August

y/n’s story

Seen by landonorris, charles_leclerc and 3,811,759 others

14 August

Liked by arthur_leclerc, riccardoberetta and 1,337,980 others

charles_leclerc: Missed being in the car. Otherwise I enjoyed every second of it 🤍 Onto Zandvoort! 💪

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scuderiaferrari: ❤️

joris__trouche: Let’s goooo 🇳🇱

arthur_leclerc: La huitième photo 🔥

Liked by charles_leclerc

user40: CHARLIE 😍

user41: always with the shirtless pics 🥵🥵

user42: lol the utter panic on his face during the pingpong game

user43: soooo… where’s maddy, charles?

user44: she left remember 🙊

user43: do you think she “left” left 👀

user45: imagine if she did lmao

user43: OH THE DRAMA

user46: guys don’t give me hope

21 August

Liked by taylorswift, danielricciardo and 1,477,264 others

y/n: Summer ‘23 w/ some of the best people 💛

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taylorswift: Ahhh it was so good to finally be on stage together!! 💖

y/n: Yesss, couldn’t agree more!!! We should do it again sometime ☺️

landonorris: Thank you for coming love ❤️

y/n: Wouldn’t have wanted to miss it for the world 😘

user47: the prettiest

user48: please come to germany next 🙏

user49: STUDIO?? MORE MUSIC???? 

Liked by y/n

user50: you look so much happier :’)

user51: she really does 😍😍 she seems to be doing much better since la 

25 August

Liked by user43, user54 and 334,091 others

wagsf1update: ‼️Charles Leclerc and Maddy Hill have broken up‼️ More updates soon

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user52: no. fucking. way.

user53: well that lasted a whole four ass months

user43: OMG WE WERE RIGHT

user45: i can’t believe it

user46: my prayers have been answered 😭

user54: congrats to sharl for seeing the light 

user55: bye adieu arrivederci maddy 👋

1 September

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a/n: hmm, y/n seems to be getting closer with lando… but with daniel as well, and charles is also single again… i wonder what will happen next 👀

on a more serious note though, i unfortunately have to postpone part 7 until somewhere between christmas/new year’s eve… i’m going on a trip abroad to visit family for the holidays and i really tried to get part 7 ready in time but alas. we can all blame tumblr’s annoying policy of not allowing 10+ images on the app. anyways, i do have a finished request lined up, so i’ll post that next week instead :)

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[alexiaugustin]

compared to the second semi.. suddenly germany is not even that bad this year

#its a normal pop song but really not zero points worthy lol #germany cannot continue its legacy this year im sorry its better than a wholew lot of the songs i just listened to

[reasonsforhope]

"The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog has said.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, and the world’s foremost energy economist, said much more needed to be done but that the rapid uptake of solar power and electric vehicles were encouraging.

“Despite the scale of the challenges, I feel more optimistic than I felt two years ago,” he said in an interview. “Solar photovoltaic installations and electric vehicle sales are perfectly in line with what we said they should be, to be on track to reach net zero by 2050, and thus stay within 1.5C. Clean energy investments in the last two years have seen a staggering 40% increase.” ...

The IEA, in a report entitled Net Zero Roadmap, published on Tuesday morning, also called on developed countries with 2050 net zero targets, including the UK, to bring them forward by several years.

The report found “almost all countries must move forward their targeted net zero dates”, which for most developed countries are 2050. Some developed countries have earlier dates, such as Germany with 2045 and Austria and Iceland with 2040 and for many developing countries they are much later, 2060 in the case of China and 2070 for India.

Cop28, the UN climate summit to be held in Dubai this November and December, offered a key opportunity for countries to set out tougher emissions-cutting plans, Birol said.

He wants to see Cop28 agree a tripling of renewable energy by 2030, and a 75% cut in methane from the energy sector by the same date. The latter could be achieved at little cost, because high gas prices mean that plugging leaks from oil and gas wells can be profitable...

He also called for Cop28 to agree a doubling of energy efficiency. “To reduce fossil fuel emissions, we need to reduce demand for fossil fuels. This is a golden condition, if we are to reach our climate goals,” he said.

Birol stopped short of endorsing the call that some countries have made for a full phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050 to be agreed at Cop28, but he said all countries must work on reducing their fossil fuel use."

-via The Guardian, September 26, 2023

#climate change #sustainability #climate anxiety #climate and environment #climate crisis #climate news #climate emergency #global warming #environment #climate action #iea #international politics #international energy agency #cop28 #united nations #greenhouse gas emissions #fossil fuels #renewable energy #solar power #electric vehicles #ev #solar panels #climate tech #good news #hope #hope posting #hopepunk

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (Jean-Luc Godard, 1991)

#Allemagne 90 neuf zéro #Allemagne 90 neuf zero #Jean-Luc Godard #Godard #quote #philosophy #society #Germany Year 90 Nine Zero #1991 #life #think